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discussion / Wildlife Crime  / 1 June 2016

Rhino poaching statistics in South Africa

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For those who are interested in following changes in rhino poaching numbers in South Africa, I highly reccommend this website. They post both official and unofficial numbers on poached rhinos.



Georg Strunck
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Delft University of Technology
SPOTS | Strategic Protection Of Threatened Species
MSc Student in Aerospace/Robotics @TU_Delft | Engineer & Project Manager @StrategicProtectionOfThreatenedSpecies (SPOTS) | Robotics Engineer @BiodivX with @ETH Zürich for the xPrize rainforest competition
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7 February 2025 3:50pm

Thank you so much for sharing! 
They seem to only state the official DFFE statistics nowadays. From my connections in SouthAfrica these numbers don't always seem to reflect the actual case anymore.
On the note of preventing illegal rhino horn trade, EMSfoundation recently published a comparison of the government's rhino horn stockpile over the past years. As it is shrinking, the question arises why they are not burnt?
The numbers lower partly due to theft but possibly also due to corruption.